The sea falls all night on the yellow sand, The green waves foam and thrust and slide, The long green waves fall on the yellow sand, All night long they fall, The green waves fall and drag at the yellow pebbles, The shingle roars in the sliding surf, Wind screams over the long volutes of foam, All night long they whirl, They charge the sand and seethe and slide in laughter, Swiftly withdraw and murmur and rise, They charge the sand with rippling, glittering edges, All night long they charge, Immortally flinging their long green bodies to death, Immortally baffled, withdrawing, crying, Rallying, hurrying, clamoring, sobbing for rest, Immortally slaying, immortally dying. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DEAD LEAVES by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON LOVE'S TENDRILS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON DOMESDAY BOOK: REV. PERCY FERGUSON by EDGAR LEE MASTERS RICHARD BOOTH TO HIS SON JUNIUS BRUTUS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS GOLDWING MOTH by CARL SANDBURG |